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Re: spot and wash 250
Elation DMX operator and one in A001 and the second one A017, one of them is moving by itself with slow movements
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Re: Some compulite questions
ok to adjust a circle movement: you create a blank scene and then you go ino edit and then you will click on the east time editor tab then once u do that u right click on the box that says "right click here to automatically create motion" and select automatic circle. assign how many points u want to then click ok. then once again right click on a pont in your circle and select shape properties. and then u can manaually adjust where you want the beam to stay within a certain area. understand?
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Re: DMX Operator Pro - Manual Fading
Hi Mcqueena, I got this information from my DMX OPERATOR PRO GUY Yes… but he has to create a show first then follow the instructions below. Select the “SHOW” button that you wish to playback. The selected Show or Shows will begin to run immediately including the originally set speed and fade times. However, the selected Show speed and fade times can manually be adjusted on the fly by simultaneously pressing the “SHOW” # button followed by the “STEP/MIX/SEQ” button. A rapidly flashing Show...
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Re: Design 36 LED
Nope.. nothing yet.. I found the setting I use for stand alone color mix is 1,3 and 7. This creates a slow color fade.
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Re: Lighting Newbie
well looking at the manual its says u can select you scenes that u recorded and enter them in a "show" u can also add scenes on the fly but since you are new to this i wouldn't try it just yet. so yes make your scenes and then add them to a show. understand? all this is in the manual just go slow and follow it step by step. good luck! sincerely,
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Re: COEmars and elation fixtures on the same control???
So i went out and bought the Compu 1024EC program, the programs is great, however i am having a little problem. My Focus Spots 250 move extremely slow. The Coemars are not as bright as they are suppose to be (they move good though). The manual doesn't give much help. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem. I have them set as 1,17,33,49,65> (thesse are the channels for the coemars) then the focus spot 250 continue as : 81,92,103,114. Am i seeting the channels wrong. Please help if you can.
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Re: COEmars and elation fixtures on the same control???
ybravo, When you say your focus spots move slow, are you refering to the preset movements of the compu? Say for example the circle moves slow? If so, have you adjusted the speed fader to see if it speeds up? With the Coemars, you need to see if both the dimmer channel and the shutter channel are 100%. Click on the Center button for that fixture and then from the drop down menu choose button then edit. look for the dimmer and shutter channels and see if they are 100% if not make them 100%...
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Re: COEmars and elation fixtures on the same control???
No, all the preset movements on all those switches (i think thats what they're called)have been set to go as fast as they can, but the focus spot still moves slow. When i activate the Circle Swtich, The coemars move fast, but the focus spot move slow and i moved the speed on the bottom of the circle switch to as high as it goes for both pages. Even when i use my mouse to move them, the focus spot still rspond a lil slow, the move faster with the mouse but not as fast as they suppose to. Help?
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Re: Request for basic newbie info...
Thanks for the welcome James. The answer I found was actually from a post of yours from the other forum, so I appreciate it! Our music alternates between full tilt country (if there is such a thing) to moderately slow ballad type songs. I think what I may try is have the fast chases activate with the audio from the kick drum, and let the slow songs chase to the time set on the fader. More on this as I get further into it. Again, thanks! Manford p.s. I've found a few simple videos out on...
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Re: Request for basic newbie info...
Alright, the verdict is in. I setup a simple chase, and activated it with both the audio and auto modes. Auto worked great, as I was able to set the speed to about 4 seconds, and the fade to around 3.8. All scanners moved nice and slow to the next chase step, just like I want. HOWEVER... Activate the audio chase, and everything just sort of stayed in the middle, trying to catch up. Seems like the FADE still applies to the chases in audio mode as well. Any way around this? Is there any method...
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Re: Magic 260 Chauvet Q-Spot 250 Profile Needed
OK Well I guess i am just a little slow I have a Chauvet Q-SCAN 250. LOL Hope someone can help Scott
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Re: Request for basic newbie info...
Update! I have come up with a hardwired (literally) solution to the issue with fade time deactivation. I'll try to explain as clearly as I can, and apologize ahead of time if I lose anyone along the way. I'm using the Behringer FCB1010 to control the Operator 192 via MIDI. What I forgot about the 1010, is the ability to use the 2 built in "Switches" to control analog functions of amplifiers, just like a traditional stomp box that controls reverb/clean channel functions, etc. These are simple...
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Re: DMX Duo
I like the fact that the Duo is a 1u system as I am trying to keep things compact for my mobile show. As it sits right now I will be using the DMX portion of the Duo to control the Color Strips. I would like to control each color as independent washes (ie blue for slow dance) and then from there any of the chases etc than can be accomplished. I have downloaded and installed the software for the Duo to upload and backup scenes, thinking (I was told) that it would let me program it. So, how...
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Re: Fading to black
Thanks Chris, The only DMX channel I was adjusted was the DIMMER channel (channel 7 according to Magic-260). All other channels remained the same. The piece that eludes me is how do I get a slow fade between the scenes from full illumination to a black out and unfortuately the fade time did not appear to work. I did some experimenting and the only time I got the fade time to work is when I was repositioning lights from point A to point B. In this scenario I could use the fade to say do it in...
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Re: Fading to black
I was back it again this evening and tried several of the recommendations with no luck. ronr -- those where the exact steps I took. Even with my dimmer set to 0 and a fade time to 30 sec, it snaps to a black out. No slow fades. John -- could not find any snap or cross fade feature on the Magic 260 and nothing is mentioned in the documentation. Since we open the show this Friday. I have trained the operator to use the master fader. I'll keep looking for an automated solutions. Let me know if...
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Re: Will compulive work with
don't bother i looked at it yesterday at bestbuy and the response time from touching the screen to the pointer moving is very slow
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Re: Scene Fade Suddenly Not Working
ill leave john to answer number one, but number 2 and 3 and 4 are mine. 2) he means more than one page for the same set of fixtures. like if you have 6 ds 250's had you set up a fixture page for each head that you have that will cause problems. so he meant multiple pages of the same fixture. 3) i have always stored SES and show files in the main sl2006 folder. its just easier to find. 4) send me one of your stage files and ill see whats up. james K at elation lighting DOT COM also how much...
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Re: SD1 drunken mishap
I'm pretty sure I was using chases that I programmed myself, is there a difference, because I just tried it again (with my own chases) and it didn't work like it was working the other night. I tried turning off the fixtures and it didn't respond at all, when I did it with the fixture on it was acting differently. Again, this is really tough to describe but the motion was fluid (and not at all jerky) and though I was changing the path of the movement with the joystick I got the impression...
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Re: Octostrip II questions...
ok, i have went back through and tried a few things, with moderate success. but first, i'll answer some of your questions: i am using martin lightjockey to control all of the moving heads & led fixtures. there are 7 pixel drive 60's operating a total of 51 lights. i am using a generic led profile on lightjockey to control the packs, and i have rgb control of every fixture individually. after doing some rummaging around, i can only locate an additional 10 octo strips & 3 pixel drive...
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Re: COMPULIVE: Quirks or bugs, and some recommended Enhancements.
BUGS On Easyshow, the time line will slow down at 3:20 into the sequence and catch back up to itself around 3:42 ish It drags behind about a second or two, which throws all my cues off. Here is the strange thing. It does not happen all the time. And another problem that has started happening, is that easy show will run into an error and shut down. compu stays open only easyshow will shut down. I have used this software to run this show for the past three years and every year there seems to...
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Re: COMPULIVE: Quirks or bugs, and some recommended Enhancements.
BUGS On Easyshow, the time line will slow down at 3:20 into the sequence and catch back up to itself around 3:42 ish It drags behind about a second or two, which throws all my cues off. .ses = easy show archive file. Whenever an easy show program is created and saved. it saves as an .ses The reason your file is needed is because our software developers need to see exactly what your referring to. Its simple for you to recreate it becasue you know where your problem is, but if we try to...
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Re: Pan problem
Your pan motor can be going out. Usually I would say that somehow the speed channel has been engaged somehow and is simply in slow mode. But it could also be a motor??? See if you can get the channel to match one of the good moving ones. If it moves exactly the same, then its not mechanical its in the programming, however if it still moves slow, the controller is sending the exact same command as a good working one, so it would most likely be a motor going out. also check the fans on that...
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Re: Scene Setter 48
Well while your waiting check out some of the compu tutorials. www.youtube.com/compulivetech WOW dial up. very slow. Have fun good luck. and any questions please feel free to post in the compu live section on this forum. Sincerely,
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Re: Replacement Fuse for Elation Proton color.
Misebeam i belive its a slow blow fuse you need for that fixture. so its a 20A 250V slow blow
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Re: Chauvet Scorpion LG-60 and Colorstrip
I suppose it's a matter of perspective I tend to be a perfectionist, so when I've got the stage all washed in a nice, deep blue and the COLORStrip is flickering, it irritates the snot out of me everything works on the COLORStrip except RGB mode, which normally I do not care about mixing the colors myself, but that means I cannot dim that fixture either when using the static color macros and that I do care about it's worse with the Scorpion Scans; the nice smooth lines and shapes I know the...
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Re: Crashing
Hi, Thanks for the link however unfortunately the update did not solve the problem. Again for some reason I can not recreate the problem outside of the school. I ran the program hard last night with the interface connected, but no lights, and I could not get it to crash. I could get it to overheat my laptop, and slow right down, but not crash. During the performance today it crash 6 times during 2 hours with me trying to be gentle with it. Each time it crashes it asks to send a crash email...
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Re: Magic 260
I was going on your statement: "I have downloaded the ADJ profiles and even installed that to the controller successfully." If you have done this, then use the profiles installed (not the x channel profiles). This is because the x channel profiles don't tell you what each of the knobs control. I'm a little surprised that you can get them all to turn on and turn off. How are you doing that? Are you just using the master fader? Please note that each fixture has it's own set of channel...
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Re: Generic moving head Fixture
Here is the break down Channel 1 = Beam 0-49 - no beam 50 - 99 full beam 100 - 129 fast strobe 130 - 159 slow strobe 160 - 255 no beam Channel 2 = Color 0 - 24 white 25 - 49 red 50 - 74 yellow 75 - 99 purple 100 - 124 - blue 125 - 149 - green 150 - 174 - dark blue 175 - 199 - deep purple 200 - 224 - color chase slow 225 - 249 - color chase faster 250 - 255 - color chase fastest Channel 3 - gobo 1 - 24 spot 25 - 49 spotted gobo 50 - 74 ninja star gobo 75 - 99 circle gobo 100 - 124 broken line...
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Re: how to setup
Why forget anything? As a sound guy, I come from a data communications and IT background. There's nothing to forget about anything. Lighting has its rules, sound has it's rules. It's just a data protocol. It's just moving bits down a cable. Just like in sound, a channel is designed to do ONE THING. In the case of lighting, a channel also does one thing, it just may not be a consistent thing as different channels do different things. That's the key is knowing that at least in regards to intel...
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Re: A Little Help with Fixture Program
I programmed it myself using a moving head profile. Please let me know where I might have gone wrong as I like being able to write my own programs - just need to get a little better at it right now. http://www.zzounds.com/item--IRRMINIMOVE Manual is in documents section at bottom: CH1: 0-100 DMX Mode 101-200 Auto Mode 201-200 Sound Mode CH2: X axis 0-255 (0-350 deg) CH3: Y axis 0-255 (0-260 deg) CH4: 0-10 Blackout 11-40 Red 41-70 Green 71-100 Blue 101-140 Red & Green 141-180 Green &...
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Re: Plat 5r 17 chan profile help
I think the fade time is applying to the color channel and that will slow down the snap. I am not familiar with lumidesk so if there is a way to not have the color wheel respond to the fade time then that is the nature of the color wheel going through the colors with a fade time on it. Sincerely,
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Re: PRob EMS witheet pan movement and chase
Hello Joel, It's really not a DMX problem, because when i slow down the bpm-rate the movement the movingheads make a nicer movement. The problem is that everytime the show steps to the next scene, the movement in that scene step to the beginning of the movement. Can you explane what the best way is to create a moving dimmerchase, i would like to create that show with a pan or cirkel movement, because that's the best way to create an nice movement Thanks in advance Hein Hoeks
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Re: design spot 250 overheating stepper motors?
thanks, i have another unit that is blowing the slow blow fuse on the main pcb in the bottom. i replaced the fuse and it ran for about an hour and blew. The fans continue to run but the control are dead. This one had no overheating problem that im aware of.
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Re: Scene, Show playback help please
hi, i want to know that same issue, like Zach. Will try to explain in other words. Im using magic 260 and i want to control 2x moving heads and 4 led pars. What im trying to do is that moving heads play some movement, circle or etc and led pars make some colour slide at the same time. im not talking about step programing, because if i want to moving heads plays slow circle, that means led pars will have to play SLOW slide. and this is bad... so, any ideas?
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Re: Lightmaxx fixtures
Oke, I posted the XML file in the right place. The fixtures appear in the list so everything is fine. But both fixtures don't seem to respond properly. The Tri-LED fixture can only do white (with main dimmer). When I change the color mix bars, nothing happens. Also when I touch the strobe bar, I can't seem to turn it off again. When set to zero, the fixture still does a very slow strobe. The Quad LED fixture only does Red, and no dimming at all, just on and off. Strobe works but has the same...
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Re: Introduction and basic questions
Thanks for responding, that's what I'm looking for. On my Operator and OpPro I have 8 scenes readily accessible with buttons. Seems that a color or color combo could be chosen for each song and use that in the BANK settings, then I'd just change scenes during the song. Here's what I've got on paper. Going to grab some fixtures from band today and practice programming. 1- quiet basic color scene for between songs, after blackout, quiet songs. 2. Aud Left 3. Center stage 4. Aud Right 5 slow...
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Re: Compu Live Fixture Grouping Problem
James, this is fantastic! I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you've put in to helping me out with this. One final question for now though. My 3D visualizer on Compu 06 started giving me trouble last night. When I try to rotate the screen in any direction it barely moved unless I made a dramatic sweeping mouse motion and then it would go nuts for a second and then freeze again. Today I haven't been able to turn my layout at all, except for the preset 'top view'..etc buttons. What did...
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Re: Programming adj lights
Make a chase that does what you are describing and include that chase in a scene. Try a 4 step chase that points the lights at opposite corners of the room at each of the 4 corners. Set the speed to slow and fade rate at 100%. The two lights should move along the sides. You can have them move in opposite directions or in the same direction. If you do it with 2 chases you can even run the 2 lights at different speeds.
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Re: Wierd bugs with SD3
Inside the SD3, the program memory is stored on a flash memory chip and the user memory, where the scenes and such are stored, is on SRAM that is connected to a battery. The battery keeps the memory alive when the power is off. This is the most common way for a device like this to operate. The battery life should be good for several years and the SD3 performs a battery check on power up. Flash memory is the most reliable memory and doesn't require a battery but it is slow to write so is not...
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Re: Freeze ups and Lag
Are you saying that limitation is a standard limitation for DMX or for Emulation ? Also , the lag in the "software" is there regardless of if my lights are actually plugged in. I can setup my laptop and have it running and eventually it will start to slow down. I am using a Intel i7 processor I think around 2.9 Ghz and DDR type 3 Ram x 8 GB I dont really have anything else running on the laptop. Also , I have had the same thing happen on a different laptop that one has a centrino and 6gb ram.
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Re: Programming mover preset buttons
So the motions that can be used are limited to what is pre-programmed into my light, correct? The movers I got (on eBay, they were cheap and apparently that's why!) have some pre-programmed stuff, but it's motion -AND- lights. I can't over-ride the lights and use my own colors so they're not very useful. It can be done other ways, just making sure I'm not missing the easy way!
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Re: Show Designer 2
SoundstormNL, you have opened up a can of worms, lol. It really comes down to user preference and what you need your console/software to do. I myself have never really been a fan of PC based control, not fast enough for me. Having actual keys in front of you means you can trigger and do certain things faster. Then if you want to move on into the high end, I wouldn't be caught dead without my touch screen/s. When I am busking for example, I normally use my Road Hog and set it up so I have I...
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Creating simple one button press presets, How to.
I have a new install using M-Touch and the latest version of Onyx. For the moment I want to establish 8 basic presets to match presets already established by the customer. All of the fixtures will be standard generic dimmers, no color, no motion, no sequences, just straight up: turn on these fixtures to this level. I am a total newby to this software and so I need a total step by step process tutorial. I am currently controlling all of the fixtures but have not been able to create a button...
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New profile for SD3
How do I get a fixture profile for a new one I have. I have attached the user manual. I want to use the 16 channel set up.
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Blizzard HOTBOX exa Profiles
Are there profiles available for the Blizzard Hotbox exa LED PAR for the Emulation controller? I am especially interested in the 10-channel version.
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Spot Briteq BT-Theatre 60FC Black LED theaterspot
Spot Briteq BT-Theatre 60FC Black LED theaterspot I have got an demo. The spot Briteq BT-Theatre 60FC Black LED theaterspot is very good. We want to buy 10 of them but without fixture we can’t use them with Emulation. Can you do the job? If we have the fixture, how can we update Emulation with teh fixture, Best regards, Deschamps Koen.
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Needing two profiles to add to Emulation software.
Needing profiles built for Chauvet Intimidator Spot 110 10 w and Blizzard Lighting Lazer Blade G. I have attached the manuals with the information. Any help would be greatly appriciated!
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Enode2 going to sleep??? Firmware issues?
I have 10 enode 2's deployed in my church. We are running sACN with a Jands L5 console. I have 5 nodes on firmware version 1.3 that have no problems. I have 2 node that are version 1.4, and 3 that are 1.5. The 1.4 & 1.5 work fine when they are first plugged in, but the next day they do not respond (or respond slowly) to any dmx commands (we leave the nodes running 24/7). The activity light is slow on them also. If I unplug the cat5 cable and plug it back in everything works fine again...
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Re: Help Needed
Needing help with adding a Lixada 15W RGBW DMX512 LED Par Light 7 Channels Channel 1 0-255 Master dimming Channel 2 0-255 Red dimming Channel 3 0-255 Green dimming Channel 4 0-255 Blue dimming Channel 5 0-255 White dimming Channel 6 0-255 Function select- 0-5- strobe and linear dimming; 51-100 transition; 101-150 gradient change; 151-200 jump change; 201-255 sound active Channel 7 0-255 Sets the speed of Ch6 function, from slow to fast
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Emulation personality for Lumin Lights Quad Mini
Channel Value Control 1 0 Stop 1-255 Adjustment for Motor X moving 2 0 Stop 1-255 Located adjustment for Motor X 3 0 Stop 1-255 Adjustment for Motor Y moving 4 0 Stop 1-255 Located adjustment for Motor Y 5 0 Close 1-255 General dimmer control,brightness is from dark to bright. 6 0 Close 1-255 Red color control,brightness is from dark to bright. 7 0 Close 1-255 Green color control,brightness is from dark to bright. 8 0 Close 1-255 Blue color control,brightness is from dark to bright. 9 0...